Hyāri Paṭāra enḍa di philasaphārasa sṭona
J. K. Rowling · 2004 · Bengali
The Philosopher's Stone in Bengali — the first of five here, which is its own small piece of publishing history.
An editors' list
What children read, across languages
A children's list is a good way to see what a language has decided matters, because nobody translates a children's book out of duty. These were carried across because somebody wanted the children in front of them to have it.
7 books
Hyāri Paṭāra ayānḍa dya prijanāra aba Ājakābāna
J. K. Rowling · 1999 · Bengali
Prisoner of Azkaban. The one most readers name when asked which is best.
Hyāri Paṭāra ayānḍa dya gabaleṭa aba phāẏāra
J. K. Rowling · 2006 · Bengali
Goblet of Fire — the book where the series stops being for children and nobody minds.
Hyāri Paṭāra ayānḍa dya hāpha-blāḍa prinsa
J. K. Rowling · 2005 · Bengali
Half-Blood Prince, in Bengali.
Hyāri Paṭāra ayānḍa dya ḍathali hyālosa
J. K. Rowling · 2010 · Bengali
The Deathly Hallows. Five volumes in one language in one catalogue is a fair measure of how completely this travelled.
Pippī Lambemoze
Astrid Lindgren · 1997 · Hindi
Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking in Hindi — a girl with no parents, no rules and a horse on the veranda, which is a subversive proposition in any language.
Haroun aur kahaniyon ka samandar
Salman Rushdie · 1990 · Hindi
Rushdie wrote Haroun and the Sea of Stories for his son while in hiding, and it is a children's book about whether storytelling is allowed to continue. Here it is in Hindi.
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